Mammoths and Hunters: A Tale of Selectivity and Survival A new study sheds light on an intriguing aspect of the relationship between Ice Age hunters and woolly mammoths, highlighting the pickiness of these prehistoric people when it came to choosing which mammoths to hunt.
Researchers have long debated how human activity contributed to the extinction of mammoth populations around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.
The evidence suggests that early humans were surprisingly selective in their prey, choosing to hunt female mammoths over males.